Deployment Psychology Blog

Research Update: 18 June 2020

By Shirl Kennedy  on 18.06.2020 8:19 am

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:

● Communication strategies used by women to influence male partners to seek professional help for mental health problems: A qualitative study.
● Evaluating the impact of simulation-based education on clinical psychology students' confidence and clinical competence.
● It Takes a Family: How Military Spousal Laws and Policies Impact National Security.
● Handgun Ownership and Suicide in California.

Staff Perspective: Moral Distress, Residue, and the Crescendo Effect - Understanding the Potential Impact of the Extended COVID-19 Crisis

By Debra Nofziger  on 17.06.2020 10:07 am
Dr. Deb Nofziger

I had a patient who had once been a psychiatrist and left the field to return to general medicine. He was an active duty Service member who'd had multiple deployments. I remember thinking that he had become so burned out from working with Service members around behavioral health issues and combat that he had to leave that part of the profession altogether. But even then, I realized that "burned out" did not capture what I was seeing in him

By the Numbers: 15 June 2020

By Shirl Kennedy  on 15.06.2020 3:40 pm

20.8%

The percentage of a "nationally representative sample of trauma-exposed U.S. veterans" who "reported experiencing mild-to-severe dissociative symptoms," according to an article recently published online in the Journal of Affective Disorders -- Dissociative Symptoms in a Nationally Representative Sample of Trauma-Exposed U.S. Military Veterans: Prevalence, Comorbidities, and Suicidality. 

Research Update: 11 June 2020

By Shirl Kennedy  on 11.06.2020 1:24 pm
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The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Advances in PTSD Treatment Delivery: Evidence Base and Future Directions for Intensive Outpatient Programs.
● The efficacy of cognitive and behavior therapies for insomnia on daytime symptoms: A systematic review and network meta-analysis.
● Napping and weekend catchup sleep do not fully compensate for high rates of sleep debt and short sleep at a population level (in a representative nationwide sample of 12,637 adults).

Staff Perspective: Learning to Live with Danger

By Debra Nofziger  on 10.06.2020 1:45 pm
Dr. Deb Nofziger

The other night, I was talking with a neighbor about my irritation with loved ones whom I viewed as having an extreme reaction to the current pandemic. When I talk with others and hear about how worried and anxious they are -- and what I view as over-the-top rituals they perform to sanitize their world -- I have found myself getting frustrated with them and trying to convince them that they don’t have to be so worried. At the same time, I am worried about my own reaction, or perceived lack thereof. Is there something wrong with them… or me?

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